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'lnvisible university': give it a try

By FRANKLIN RI-INFRO
Kernal Reporter

UK President Otis Singletary, in a
speech last night to a Student Senate
orientation conference, stressed the
importance for students to go be
yond the superficial university ex-
perience to find the richer and
worthier “invisible university

“You come to two universities.
One is the university where you go to

Volume LXIX, Number 14
Wednesday. September 7,1977

 

ballgames, parties, meet friends,
and attend classes, which is all fine.
It helps you mature."

"Then the second university is the
invisible university. It deals with the
life of the mind, the excitement of
coming to grips with an idea and
finding out what this great learning
process is all about."

If you find the invisible university,
you‘ve made it, and you‘ll never stop
learning, Singletary said.

    
 

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Contestants tow the line in tugging contest

       
    

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By DAVID IIIBBIT'I‘S
Sports Editor

Call it trench warfare if you will.
Although there were no noticeable
signs of blood, there were a lot of
sore-bodied. fun-loving losers who
could not wait to get to a hot
steambath.

The intramural sports department
held its annual Tug-of—War contest
yesterday afternoon for fraternities,
sororities, dormitories and indepen-
dent entries.

The approximately 500 people in
the crowd were clad in everything
from Greek-letterd jerseys to the
same attire they had worn to the
day‘s classes. Most eventually parti-
cipated on a tug team, and some
tried to get away with wearing
spikes. for shame.

The spectators hugged the rope to
get a closer look at the combatants.
They were gradually turning the

“If I were to have one wish it
would be that more students find out
about this invisible university," he
said. “It will enrich your lives.
There is a great deal more here if
you strive to find it."

If he sounded like a preacher,
Singletary said he also felt like one.
He said he didn't intend to dwell on
specifics, but didn‘t want students to
miss the forest for the trees.

“It’s a far more complicated
process than anyone knows. The

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average student sees us as the place
to do his undergraduate study; with
a certain amount of academic work,
we give him a piece of paper and
that’s an education."

The intricate process he mention-
ed is a massive organization of three
basic educational divisions: the UK
campus, a medical center with five
colleges, and 13 community col-
leges, he said.

Singletary described UK as-
“highly decentralized.“ He said

 

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originally green field behind the
Seaton Center into a long strip of up
rooted grass and dirt.

A flurry of early forfeits caused a
slow start that escalated to hysteria
as the teams went practically head-
to—head to chants of “Pull, pull. pull"
and “He-e-e-ave."

As the excitement built, one photo-
grapher was almost wiped out as
some of the struggling losers started
drifting close to the white chalk line.

Strategies were formed in last
minute huddles just before the
masochistic participants united to
battle rope burns and 11 other
red-faced, straining fools.

A staff team from Kirwan II won
its first four tugs easily. The first
“best two out of three" clash was
against a team composed of only
seven members, none of whome
could have weighted more than 150
pounds.

The Kirwan 11 staff won laughing.

Proof that people still give that old college try are contestants in
yesterday's intramural Tug-of-War. Below, Susan Payton,
recreation senior, and Janet Jarboe, nursing sophomore, are
losing to the Pi Beta Phi team. Scott Langley, production
agriculture senior (right) pulls to win against Tau Kappa Epsilon.
And cheering the Kappa Deltas is member Paula Faulkner

t above ), an interior design junior.

Kirwan lI‘s next bout was a little
tougher. but the red-shirted team
swept it in two straight. "We just
hang low and tilt our heads," team
spokesman George Boumann said.

Boumann was handling that vital
position at the front of the 11-man
team. Just before each duel. he
waggled the rope in front of him as if
to taunt his opponents.

Even the hard luck losers enjoyed

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people are always asking "Why
don't you issue an order?“

But according to the president, he
is a lot less like a general in the
army than like a fisherman watch-
ing seagulls fly over him.

Singletary said he agrees with
accusations claiming UK has many
peculiarities and is often unwieldy
and clumsy.

“It is a mixed bag at best," he
said.

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the intense competition. One con-
test, won by the Gamma Phi Betas
over the Kappa Deltas (Kl)s), went
down to the wire.

KI)‘s enthusiastic Susan Payton
took the defeat in stride and with a
tired smile, said, “If you get the first
tug, you will win.“ she said. “I get
psyched up for this every year.”

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women from Blazer Hall took the
field. intramural director Ron Vio-
lette shouted over the loudspeaker,
“They‘re a little short on people.
Let's give them some encourage-
ment."

Blazer‘s Susanna Riley shrugged
off the expected defeat, saying,
“Last year we just had two people
and tried it anyway. Why not?"

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G. GORDON LIDDY, MASTERMIND 0f the Watergate
burglary, was driven from a federal prison at Danbury,
0am, to Williamsport, Pa. yesterday for a final court
hearing before his release on parole.

Uddy, 46, has served 52“.» months for planning and
swervising the 1972 Watergate burglary. He received the
lmgest prison term of any person convicted in the
Watergate scandal and is only one of the seven Watergate
birglars still in prison.

The US. Parole Board approved Liddy‘s release for
My after his maximum sentence was cut from 20 years
toeight years last spring by President Carter. That made
him eligible for parole any time after July 9 of this year.

BUDGET DIRECTOR BERT LANCE ran one of his
Georgia banks like a family “playpen," a congressman
said yesterday, referring to overdrafts that Lance and
family members had made at a bank he headed.

Rep. Fernand St. Germain, chairman of a House
barking subcommittee, said that “while I do not want to
prejudge, the evidence I have seen to date leads me to
believe that Bert Lance, his family and friends regarded
the Calhoun First National Bank as their playpen—to be
usedas they pleased,“ he said.

state

ABOUT 7,500 UNITED MINE Workers (UMW) return-
ed to work yesterday in eastern Kentucky, rekindling
has among UMW union leaders that a wildcat strike
was burning itself out after 11 weeks.

About 2,500 of UMW District 30‘: 10,000 members still

wee reported out yesterday at mines of three large
companies.
Roving bands of pickets began closing mines In June in
theheat of a dispute over cuts in union health benefits.
Kentucky appeared to have the last holdouts in the
strike, which idled an estimated 85,000 miners in five
states at its peak.

A FIVE-WOMAN. ONE-MAN JURY was chosen
yesterday to hear a $60 million damage suit by widows of
is men killed in the March 1976 Scotia Coal Co. mine
disaster in southeastern Kentucky.

The jury will begin hearing testimony today.

The widows week damages from Scotia's parent
corrpany, Blue Diamond Coal Co. of Knoxville, Tenn.

The suit claims federal and state mine safety laws were
vidated at the mine, contributing to the blast.

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UGANDAN PRESIDENT IDI AMIN has ordered the
public executions of 12 former ranking government and
military officials convicted of plotting to overthrow him,
Uganda radio said yesterday.

Broadcasts monitored in Nairobi said the executions by
firing squad were scheduled for 5 pm. Friday no am.

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and thunderstorms today and tonight. Continued hazy,
warm and humid. Low tonight in the mid 60s to around 70.
Highs today and tomorrow in the low In. Chances of
precipation are 50 per cent today and tonight.

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Meanwhile, back in Seoul...

One man who apparently won‘t be visiting the
United States for a while is South Korean
businessmanturned-fugitive Tongsun Park.

That‘s because the Justice Department issued
an indictment yesterday accusing Park of 36
federal corruption charges, including conspir-
acy. bribery and mail fraud.

He has been the focus of a government probe
investigating activities unimaginatively re-
ferred to as “Koreagate.”

Named as an unindicted coconspirator was
former Rep. Richard T. Hanna, who reportedly
admitted two weeks ago that he had received
between $60000 and 370.000 in gifts from Park.

The 30~page indictment said the two men

conspired to influence Senate and House
members "to take official actions and make
favorable decisions" to South Korea and
President Park Chung-bees regime.

Specifically. the South Koreans wanted more
military aid and larger rice orders from the
t'nited States. The alleged conspiracy also
involved efforts to have House members make
speeches favorable to the South Korean govern-
ment and write letters to Park praising his
regime

Since 1954. South Korea has received $2.2
billion in American aid.

After 10 months of silence. Park recently said
that he did not go around Capitol Hill spreading
money and favors and insisted he was never an
agent in the South Korea intelligence agency.

However, an American CIA chief in Seoul told
the Washington Post that he regarded Park as an
important “agent of influence."

In addition to Park’s official Korean role, he
had at least circumstantial ties with the
American CIA through his prominent member-
ship in two student groups during the 19605.

Park contends he was the victim of “injustice
and mistreatment," and has said the accusations
against him were “irresponsible, merciless and
inhumane."

“Whatever I have done . . . has been done on
my own account as a private businessman to
enhance my own business situation and has
nothing to do with a foriegn government,” Park
said.

“Allegations that I must be a lobbyist who
came to Washington with a sackful of money are
absolutely not true. I have always enjoyed the
company of political figures. It was my hobby.”

As a result. the multimillionaire refuses to
come back and face his accusers. And he has
vowed not to submit to questioning even if the
House Ethics Committee sends representatives
toSeoul.

“If Leon Jaworski comes to Korea, it‘s his
liberty, but I’m not going to see him.“

Jaworski, the former Watergate prosecutor,
heads the congressional probe into the alleged
Korean influence-buying.

Tongsun Park cannot be returned to Washing-
ton against his will since South Korea does not

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have an extradition treaty with this country.

It‘s about the ONLY treaty that doesn't exist
between the two nations.

All this talk about extradition could have been
avoided, however, if the Justice Department had
obtained an indictment two weeks ago.

At that time, Park was in London, where he
could have been detained by U .S. authorities.

Evidently American officials kept the indict-
ment under wraps in the hope that Park would

return to London. The arraignment would have
been used as a bargaining tool to obtain
information from Park if any charges against
him were not pressed.

The businessman dashed that hope, though, by
making Seoul his sanctuary—perhaps perma-
nently.

Park said he was going home to visit his sick
mother. Right now the Justice Department must
be feeling pretty sick, too.

Latest money making scheme—death

B} HARRY H. MILLER Ill

“it'stoolate This man is dead."

The doctors and nurses hustled
and hustled on their seperate ways.
t 'w as Friday night and the big rush
:n the emergency room was just
starting They had no time to gawk
over one dead body.

I was gawking They hadn‘t said
lust anyone was dead. It was me
they had scraped off the. pavement

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and rushed to the hospital. Too late.
And now I was dead. That didn‘t
amaze me nearly as much as the
fact that l was standing there
looking at a crushed body that used
to be me.

"Well. hello. hello Nice to meet
you. son My name is Dewey. and
I'm your escort for your Rcorienta
tion Period."

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know. It‘s not everyday that one
goes through the experience of
changing from life to death."

“Death?“

“Now don’t you worry. It isn't too
bad. No worse than Freshman
English. But we must hurry. Friday
is a big night. Lots of new cust-
omers.“

Rather taken aback, I dutifully
followed Dewey. After all, I was
entering a new existence and felt
{rightfully unprepared for it. And
since being newly dead, I had little
else better to do.

“Dewey? l have a few questions?"

“That's what I‘m here for.
m'boy.“

"I sort of assumed that, well. I
would. you know..."

“Not be around. so to speak? It‘s a
shock. but your existence is contin-
ued after life has passed. You can
observe and even participate in, to
some extent. anything that happens
in the real world. You don’t even
have to wait in line for tickets."

 

“I‘m amazed."

“That‘s why l'm here. Most people
aren‘t ready to see what goes on
after they are gone. Once you get
used to it. it‘s actually a lot of fun.”

“Whatis?”

"To see how people act after
you‘re dead, of course,"

"I hadn‘t thought about it. but I
guess it would be interesting."

“Oh. it‘s fascinating." Dewey
exclaimed. “Did you realize. for
example. a whole industry goes into
motion once you're dead?”

“What?"

“Oh yes. If it weren't for people
like you. tastelessly dropping dead,
an entire segment of the economy
would disappear. Ambulance ser-
vices, hospitals, mortuaries. grave-
diggers. lawyers. religious groups u
why, a whole list of organizations
and people would be sorely dis—
appointed if you hadn't kicked off.
How‘s your financial statement, by
the way?“

 

I admitted I had made some
savings in my short life time.

“Excellent. Your second existence
could be real fun. Now. all your
friends and relatives gct inmlvcti
The claims and fights met your
estate will get bigger ard better as
time goeson."

“Now if you had some big money.
particularly as a popular artist. the
entertainment value of your passing
on would increase dramatically "

“I doubt you could term mc a
popular phenomenon. l was on The
(iong Show once." I sheepishly
admitted.

“Sorry. no commcrimal value
there. To really see what creative
manuevering of an event can be. it‘s
to the pop cult you must look to.
That‘s where the most fun is.

I could see I had a lot to learn
about my new ('XlStClICt‘.

"You mean like Elvis." tasked?

“Exactly. Now, that's entertain-
ment. The kind of thing that makes
tclethons look like nickel»and-dit.1e
operations. The potential is there
and has only begun to be tapped-
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“That‘s true. All for a little
money. But you might as well enjoy
it. You couldn't have changed it in
your lifetime, much less now. Too
bad. though. If only you had been a
cult here. You might have really had
some fun.“

“Perhaps I'll get some jollies out
of the probate of my will," I said.

“That’s the spirit, son. And rem-
ember, that is only the start. You
still have will contests. debtors by
the score, in-laws looking out for
‘your’ interests, etc. You must learn
to do the best with what you had. Not
everyone can be a Howard Hughes.
Jimi Hendrix, Gary Gilmore, Elvis
or Groucho.“

As Dewey walked on, I decided to
stay behind. I figured my reorienta-
tion was over. Time to start my new
existance. Time to see how valuable
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poster. Why with the right market
ing. decomposing remains have
commercial value."

“That‘s disgusting."

“Of course. but it’s the American
way. Sell and fight over the pro-
ceeds.“

“But just because someone has
died...“

“That‘s the best of times Don‘t
have to worry about silly little things

Letters to

The UK Women‘s Rights Coalition
and Lexington-Bluegrass NOW in»
vite you to see It llappens to ts.
from 1 pm. to 3 pm. Saturday at the
Student Center Theatre.

It Happens to L's is a 30-minute
documentary in which women speak
candidly about their various abor-
tion experiences.

Their stories reveal the problems
of illegal versus legal medically safe
abortions.

This is particulary important be-
cause of the socalled “Right To

to make money off of anything,
including death. It‘s one of the. more
interesting social phenomena. And
now you' re part Of it."

"I didn‘t make anything worth
fighting over.“

"But in many cases, the smaller
the spoils. the greater the battle.
And all for “the way you would have
wanted it.‘ “

"This Is incredible.“

the editor

Life" (anti‘woman) forces that
would deny the constitutional right
to safe legal abortions for all women
forcing them to resort to illegal back
alley abortion or forced pregnancy.
The film will be followed by short
statements by Lexington NOW and
the UK Women‘s Rights Coalition
and discussion. Prochoice litera-
ture will be on hand as well.
Patricia Van llouten
Law School Student Senator
Member of Women's Rights
(‘oalltlon

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Q: I paid $4 for my Freshman
Register in July and I haven‘t heard
anything about it since then. It was
supposed to be delivered in late July
or early August. My friends and l
are getting impatient. When are we
going to get our copies?

—M.ll.

A: The Student Center office said
the registers were mailed out last
week directly from the printing firm
and should be at your home address
by now. If you call home and find
that the book is not there yet. check
with the folks in room 203 of the
Student Center.

 

Hassled by bureaucrats? Ripped
off by business? TROUBLESHOO-
TER can help. Call 257-3369 between
10 am. and 4 pm. Monday through
Friday.

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